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Mastering Adobe Photoshop Elements 2020 - Second Edition

By : Robin Nichols
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Mastering Adobe Photoshop Elements 2020 - Second Edition

By: Robin Nichols

Overview of this book

Adobe Photoshop Elements is a raster graphics editor for entry-level photographers, image editors, and hobbyists. Updated and improved to cover the latest features of Photoshop Elements 2020, this second edition includes focused coverage of Adobe's new AI-powered features that are designed to make the editing process more efficient, creative and fun. This book takes you through the complexities of image editing in easy-to-follow, bite-sized chunks, helping you to quickly recognize the editing challenge at hand and use suitable tools and techniques to overcome it. You’ll start by learning how to import, organize, manage, edit, and use your pictures in a format that’s designed for creative photography projects. Throughout this Adobe Photoshop Elements book, you'll discover how to fix different photographic problems using an extensive repertoire of commonly applied solutions. Common processes such as applying artistic effects to creative projects, custom image makeovers, processing images for social media, and other file export methods will also be covered. By the end of this book, you’ll have learned about the impressive tools available in Photoshop Elements 2020, and how it is designed not only for photographers who’d like to dip their toes into the editing world, but also for those wanting simple but effective ideas on how to expand their creativity while remaining time-efficient.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

The View menu

Before you start any design project, it's important to have layout and lineup tools at your disposal – in the same way that before you start to type a letter, you need to have the margins, font and font styles set in place for a specific style or look.

The View menu repeats some of the keyboard shortcuts we've already mentioned elsewhere in this book, notably the Zoom in and Zoom out functions (Ctrl/Cmd + + and Ctrl/Cmd + -, respectively). These are two of the most important keyboard shortcuts because, as an image editor, you need to go in close to retouch, then zoom out to the see the global effect, then go in close again, then zoom out again, on a regular basis. Alternatively, you can use Ctrl/Cmd + 0 (zero) to fit the image to the main screen – another handy shortcut.

Zooming to Print Size will show you how large it will print. If you have adjusted the file resolution so that it matches the output requirement (in the Image Size panel)...